David Marx reports the student comment... "Subequent conversations with
the other experimenters revealed that they would rather be wrong than go
into the lab to take more data using the correct method. So, the
results reported here will likely be wrong."
We also have the Pasco Millikan system, which is quite a nice system.
One of the things I like about this experiment is that it is very
frustrating and helps students understand what Millikan's assistants
went through, for a rather long period of time.
Every time I suggested that maybe they should take more data, it was
like I was sending them to the torture chamber. I think just about
every student thinks it is the most difficult experiment they have done.
I heard comments similar to what David heard. I even heard... "If we
all boycotted this lab, you wouldn't flunk us all would you?" I said,
"Go ahead. Make my day. Nothing is easier to grade than nothing."
Michael D. Edmiston, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics and Chemistry
Bluffton University
Bluffton, OH 45817
(419)-358-3270
edmiston@bluffton.edu
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